User Preferences

Previous work in generating explanations from advice- giving systems has demonstrated that a cooperative sys- tem can and should infer the immediate goals and plans of an utterance (or discourse …...

Most traditional summarization methods treat their outputs as static and plain texts, which fail to capture user interests during summa- rization because the generated summaries are the same for different …...

In spite of much ongoing research on ma- chine translation evaluation there is little quantitative work that directly measures users’ intuitive or emotional preferences regarding different types of machine trans- …...

Existing models for social media per- sonal analytics assume access to thou- sands of messages per user, even though most users author content only sporadi- cally over time. Given this …...